Lahiru Thirimanne

Hettige Don Rumesh Lahiru Thirimanne, known as Lahiru Thirimanne (හෙට්ටිගේ දොන් රුමේෂ් ළහිරු තිරිමාන්න; born 9 August 1989) is a former Sri Lankan international cricketer, and a former ODI captain.

He is a left-handed opening batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.

He had also acted as a vice-captain of the Sri Lanka One Day International team, when he was dropped from the team after poor performances.

The highest is 163 between Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara in Sydney in 2006.

Finally, Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets with 59 balls remaining.

Thirimanne won player of the match award for his performance.

He made his One Day International (ODI) debut in early 2010.

He made his Test debut against England at the Rose Bowl in June 2011, coming into the side for the injured Tillakaratne Dilshan.

In his first Test innings, he was dismissed for 10 runs caught behind off the bowling of James Anderson.

Thirimanne scored his first ODI century against Australia at Adelaide Oval during second ODI of 2012–13 Commonwealth Bank Series.

It's also his first A List century.

Thirimanne reached a deserved century by cutting Xavier Doherty backward of point for the winning runs.

Lahiru Thirimanne's century is only the fifth by a Sri Lankan batsman in a chase against Australia (second in Adelaide).

Aravinda de Silva has scored two centuries in chases.

Also the 137-run stand between Thirimanne and Tillakaratne Dilshan is the second-highest second-wicket partnership for Sri Lanka against Australia.

During 1st test at Galle on 8 March 2013, during Bangladesh's tour of Sri Lanka, Thirimanne scored his maiden test century.

His unbeaten 155 run helped to put up big total for Sri Lanka.

Thirimanne was watchful.

On 99, he gave Elias Sunny the charge, and picked up two runs to seal his landmark.

Thirimanne was strong on the off side against the seamers.

A single to cover took him past 150.

He also put on 203 run partnership with Dinesh Chandimal.

The 203-run stand between Chandimal and Thirimanne is the third-highest fifth-wicket partnership for Sri Lanka in Tests against Bangladesh.

Finally the match was drawn.

Thirimanne was a member of the Sri Lankan team that won the 2014 ICC World Twenty20, and the 2014 Asia Cup, where he was the player of the series in the Asia tournament.

For batsmen to play 50 or more Test innings in the top six, Thirimanne's average of 22.06 was the worst in history, sitting just under the figure of 22.07 recorded by Bangladesh's Javed Omar in his 40-game Test career.

Since maiden test century at Galle he had gone seven years and 10 months without another, averaging 18.86 in 53 innings until his second test century against England.

But Thirimanne showed good comeback in test format in 2021.

On 22 July 2023, Thirimanne announces his retirement from international cricket and migrated to Australia.

Thirimanne began his cricketing career at S.Thomas' College, Bandarawela and played Under 11 cricket and his first coach was Sujeewa Gunarathne.

He studied at S.Thomas' College Bandarawela initially as his father, who was employed at the Survey Department was transferred.

After passing the grade 5 scholarship exam Lahiru joined Prince of Wales' College, Moratuwa and played in the Under 13, 15, 17 and 19 team.

During the 2014 Asia Cup in Bangladesh, he opened the batting with Kusal Perera, due to the injury of Tillakaratne Dilshan, who was not included in the series.

He was recalled in 2018 for the national team.

In March 2018, he was named in Colombo's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament.

He was the leading run-scorer for Colombo during the tournament, with 198 runs in three matches.

The following month, he was also named in Colombo's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.

In August 2018, he was named in Kandy's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League.

In March 2019, he was named in Galle's squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.

In August 2021, he was signed up by Australia's Mulgrave Cricket Club ahead of the 2021/22 season.